Main Outcome Measures. MBS in parents, and PCOS features in mothers, were related to the presence of PCOS features in probands.

Results. Fathers had strikingly high prevalences of excess adiposity (94% were obese or overweight) and MBS (79%). Premenopausal mothers more commonly had MBS (36%) than features of PCOS (
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